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Y-Code

Empowering the Youth of Auroville and Bio-region

A 6-week course to learn Web Development using HTML, CSS and Javascript alongside attending workshops for Inner Development and Entrepreneurship.

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(Registration closes: 10 July )

Integral Y

Connecting the dots for an Integral Living that takes care of inner and outer growth!

Dream

Each one of us has a sense of our deepest potential - an idea of the best that we can be. The power of this dream shows up in How I engage in the world?

We help you explore this core and articulate for yourself.

Excellence and Intent

I feel a sense of contentment and pride when I know I do good work. How can I excel at what I do? How can I be good at my craft?

Growth and Relations

How can I work with people I like? I feel a sense of camaraderie and belonging when I work with people I can call friends. How do I co-create such teams?

Comfortable Living

How can I live comfortably? How do I find ways to bring in material comfort that is exciting, joyful and is also honourable?

Why Y-Code?

Tailored to meet the needs of Youth in Auroville and Bio-region, the course is contextualised to Auroville and offers several benefits to its participants.

Learn Cutting-edge Technology: Curated from the best of open-source software, learn cutting edge technologies that are in high-demand
Develop Real World Projects: Learn practical skills by working on real-world projects that Auroville and the world at large uses.
Entrepreneurial skills: Develop entrepreneurial mindset and skills to build the next generation ecosystem for material and spiritual growth.
Fun Learning: Fun-filled activities as you engage with your peers and domain experts in your journey
Integral Growth: Developing your career skills while discovering the uniqueness of your personal life values.
Cocreate Auroville: Wear your creative hat and build solutions and validate them in the community.

Keydates

Registration Open: 14 Apr 2023
Last Date For Applying: 10 July 2023
Confirmation of Students for 6 weeks: 15 July 2023
Starting of the 6 week Programme: 18 July 2023
Confirmation of Students for 3 years: 30 August 2023
3 year programme starts: 5 Sep 2023

Tech Specializations You Will Learn

Software Prototype to Product

Learn prototyping tools for building tech products, Design Thinking, User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI) design, software programming languages, web and mobile app development languages and frameworks.

In short, you will learn everything from ideation to complete product development of web and mobile apps.

Internet of things

Learn to build from simple toy projects using breadboard to building real world IoT projects that help in envionment monitoring and farming robots covering embedded programming, hardware design and prototyping to deploying them.

DevOps

Gain the skills to deploy and maintain large-scale server architechture using tools such as Kubernetes. Learn how to manage infrastructure in popular cloud computing service providers like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.

Tasters

The course also will give a taste on the upcoming technologies such as

Blockchain: Blockchain provides immutable database to record information in a way that makes it impossible to change or hack. Cryptocurrencies are built on top of blockchain.
Cryptocurrency: A very exciting digital asset as a means to make transactions around the world. With countries around the world making it legal, the opportunities in crypto currencies are immense.
NFT: Non-fungible tokens a.k.a NFT is a special type of crypto tokens used to sell ownership of digital art works but is slowly expanding to other forms of works.
DeFi: Decentralized Finance a.k.a DeFi refers to all application built on top of the Cryptocurrency. Just like banks are built on top of national currencies, DeFi is built on top of cryptocurrencies.
Data Analysis: Data is the new oil, they say. Data analysis to extract meaningful information from raw data is shaping the new world.
Data Science: Data scientist builds predictive models and extract computational insights from raw data.
Machine learning: Machines learning is an exciting new field that processes huge amounts of data to learn how to predict. Recommendations on Spotify or Facebook is an example of ML at work.
Internet Marketing & Tech Business Management: Business management and marketing for the new age tech businesses are completely different from the traditional brick and mortar business.

Frequently asked questions

How long is this course?: The course is for a duration of 3 years starting from July 1, 2023. There is an initial 6 week trial where the students have hands-on experience with the structure of the programme before committing for the longer period 3 years.
Do you provide a government recognised degree certificate?: No. This course doesn't provide any recognisable certificates as any other Auroville based educational institutions. However, the course provides practical job-ready skills.
Is this course provided free?: Yes & No. This course is provided as a Gift. There are costs involved in delivering the course to the students but we do not want money to be an hinderance to gaining knowledge. So you are encouraged to contribute from your heart that is meaningful to you without being a burden.
I'm not sure if this is the right course for me or my children: Please fill in the application form nevertheless and you will be able to speak with one of our team members to assess if the course is a fit for your needs.
Why is Talam offering this course?: We believe our youth needs opportunities to develop their skills in technology without going abroad. As a city our technology needs are also growing fast. We want to address both these needs with this programme.

Meet our Team

Shankardevy

Founder

With more 15 years of experience in the tech space and about 12+ years of working for Auroville, Shankardevy curates the learning experience for Y-Code.
Manoj

Co-Founder

Woke up around the age of 21 having no clue of what was going around him until he reached Sri Aurobindo. Now here with you to help you discover your inner call.
Nittin

Developer & Fellow Traveller

An office-schooled kid developing web apps for Auroville. Nittin conducts pair-programming sessions, code reviews and is helpful to clear any doubts as your learn.
Swetha

Programme Manager

Quality Assurance specialist by profession, Swetha is the programme manager organising day-to-day activities and your point of contact for everything related to the course.
Azha

Developer & IoT Engineer

Azha is part of the Debug team - your first point of contact to unblock you whenever you get stuck with concepts or practical implementations in your learning journey.
Shakthi

Developer

Sakthi is part of the Debug team - your first point of contact to unblock you whenever you get stuck with concepts or practical implementations in your learning journey.
Deven

Lifelong Learner & Social Entrepreneur

Deven started his first successful business in personal finance at 17 and later worked to leverage technology for inner and social transformation. Inspired by Auroville's Dream and Charter, he has been holding learning programs in areas ranging from Entrepreneurship and Gift Economy to Sanskrit and Meditation.
Naveen

Facilitator & Leadership Coach

Naveen is a student of Yoga and has been living in Auroville for more than 5 years now. His interests include Evolutionary Leadership, Integral Psychology and Process Work. He feels extremely privileged to be a part of Auroville and hopes to serve in small ways possible towards making the Mother's Dream a reality.
Rajeev

Facilitator & Leadership Coach

As a facilitator and certified coach with over 20 years of entrepreneurial and leadership experience, Rajeev helps participants discover ‘the best that they can be’ and mentor them through their entrepreneurial journey